Sustainability Planning

Competition, regulatory pressure, and concern for the bottom line are forcing businesses not only to think, but to act greener than ever before. EcoMotion helps companies examine their footprint – in terms of energy, water, carbon, and other resources – to examine their options, and to then help them take next steps toward sustainability. For some clients, we have examined their product lines through a sustainability lens, as well as their manufacturing processes. Using this basis, EcoMotion then crafts corporate sustainability plans (and Climate Actin Plans) using facilitated input processes. Working closely with our clients, we define missions and set goals and then present detailed strategies and tactics for action in up to ten domains of sustainability.

Energy Efficiency Services

Move to accomplishments… Ted Flanigan served as the Director of Energy Efficiency for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in the late 1990s. In this capacity, he designed a portfolio of 16 programs to serve the utilities’ million residential customers, 180,000 business customers including 2,000 school sites, three refineries, and 21 colleges. The City also provided energy services to Los Angeles City departments, including the port of Los Angles and three airports.

EcoMotion’s mantra is “Efficiency First!” It is usually the least-cost and most widely beneficial and least controversial step for all of our clients, for cities, corporations, and campuses. Getting one’s house in order is inarguable and often invisible. For corporations keen on saving money, lessening their footprint, improving air quality and productivity, our team begins with assessing facilities’ energy efficiency potentials. We can also provide ASHRAE Level 1 and 2 audits.

What measures can be taken to lessen kWh/square foot, and therms per square foot? Where might additional lighting and space conditioning be beneficial? Inversely, can lighting levels be reduced in certain areas? What potential is there for use of outside air through operable windows and air economizers? What facility controls are in place?

EcoMotion fully analyzes each facility’s technical potentials for efficiency and then informs this analysis with rigorous analysis of costs and benefits, paybacks, and returns on investment. We present clients with detailed supply curves of efficiency measures, graphically depicting their costs and relative savings values. And we often recommend bundling lower and higher cost measures to realize the greatest savings.

Distributed EnergyResources

For corporations, EcoMotion provides expertise with Distributed Energy Resources, notably Distributed Generation (DG in the form of solar energy), and Distributed Energy Storage (in the form of lithium-ion battery storage systems.) DER – fully integrated and controlled in smart grids – has enormous economic and environmental potential for corporate clients.

Our team also evaluates the merits of Advanced Energy Storage, battery systems that can help reduce costs through demand charge management and avoiding peak demand and energy charges. Given State and regional incentives for peak demand reductions and voltage support in specific geographic regions, storage is now affordable and is rising in prominence and applications. Many consumers can now add energy storage to their smart energy management practices, saving money with no money down and supporting the local power grid while reaping the benefit of performance guarantees. Our experts use OnGrid for solar financial analysis, and Energy Toolbase for load profile and savings analysis of solar and storage solutions.

Utility Services

EcoMotion is rooted in utility services. Ted Flanigan worked as a Strategic Planner for the New York Power Authority and as Director of Energy Efficiency for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. He has consulted for over 100 utilities.

EcoMotion’s currently offers a suite of Utility Services from program planning to evaluation. We provide planning services, and portfolio assessments of utilities’ energy efficiency programs and renewable energy programs and services. We make policy and programmatic recommendations. We specialize in program implementation, developing and rolling out utility pilot and demonstration programs. And we provide quality control, tracking and evaluation, solar system verification, and continuous commissioning services.